Ummm ... Cold War ended b/c the people wanted to end it. Like hell Reagan ended Communism. It still exists today. We have no power to end Communism in other parts of the world, only the citizens of those countries can do it. I don't really care who "invented" the internet and co., can we really say any one person or group is responsible for our economic prosperity? Point is, our government authorized the spending of a lot of money and it paid off. Thank god. As for our military technology ... let's not forget we invested a lot of money into that ... $800 billion PFloyd40? ... I don't know ... defense is a business like everything else in this world ... why not sell it if other people that are willing to pay for it? At least then we'll be "threatened" again and then we can spend billions more on defense like the Republicans want! If we want to keep building the morale of our military so that they can win wars, let's make sure other countries can wage a war against us first. And if some of our domestically owned defense companies can profit from it, why not? "Contract for America" ... was there ever a bigger ploy? Republicans have the best slogans ... "Right to Life" ... "Partial Birth Abortion" ... and all that other shit Bush use in verbatim. And why do the Republicans have the best slogans? ... because they lack substance. They must make up for their incompetence somehow ... and what's better than fluff and "fuzzy math" to target the opposition. How many times did Newt and his contract for America close down the government? I give Clinton credit for sticking to his creed. If the Republican congress have done so much for us the last few years, why do their majority keep slipping? In just this election year alone, they've lost at least 3 senate seats, 1 house seats and 1 governorship. The team is losing, what more, they're falling apart. That's why it's so important that Bush wins. Clinton may have his issues ... poor Hiliary for having to acknowledge to the whole world that her husband cheated on her; but really, with the exception of our "moral police," the world doesn't care. Clinton legacy is not only that he has presided over the greatest economic expansion in the history of the world, he has strengthened his party. And another thing ... we are not a democracy! The Electoral College proves that we are not a democracy. If Bush win (and how cocky of him to already start putting together an administration) knowing Al Gore has more popular votes, all I want to know is, how does George W. Bush and the Republican party define democracy?